Surgical Robotics: From the Laboratory to the Operating Room
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Robotics and Service Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surgical robotics; medical robotics; control theory; artificial intelligence
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Interests: robotics; human-robot interaction; intelligent control systems; haptics; telerobotics; virtual reality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the launch of a new joint Special Issue of Machines and Robotics on “Surgical Robotics: From the Laboratory to the Operating Room”, to which we cordially invite you to contribute.
Over the past twenty years, surgical robots have seen an increasing acceptance and utilization in the operating room, revolutionising interventions by enhancing surgical dexterity and safety, while reducing procedure and patient recovery times. Current commercial platforms cover a wide range of surgical specialties, from urologic, to colorectal, to gynecologic surgery, to name a few. In the last years, many more companies have entered the market, offering advanced robotic surgical solutions, intensifying the competition, while at the same time, research in the field has been growing exponentially.
The main goal of this Special Issue is to provide a current snapshot of the state of the art, both for the commercial platforms deployed in the Operating Room, as well as the research and innovation output from academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Technical and functional description of commercial platforms;
- Clinical applications of commercial and emerging platforms;
- Autonomy is surgical robots;
- Enhanced human–robot interaction;
- Surgical data science;
- Remote surgery/telesurgery;
- Novel intra/perioperative visualisation and imaging in robotic surgery;
- Novel designs;
- Training platforms and tools;
- Cognitive architectures and control;
- Haptics in robotic surgery.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Machines.
Dr. George Moustris
Dr. Costas Tzafestas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotic surgery
- autonomy
- human–robot interaction
- surgical data science
- cognitive surgical robotics
- surgical training
- remote surgery
- telesurgery
- haptics
- intraoperative imaging
- perioperative imaging
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